Paradise Lost (1667)

image: The Fall of the Rebel-Angels by Peter Breughel the Elder (1562)

And for their dwelling placeAccept this dark opprobrious Den of shame,The Prison of his Tyranny who ReignsBy our delay? no, let us rather chooseArm’d with Hell flames and fury all at onceO’re Heav’ns high Towrs to force resistless way,